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teeghman.bsky.social
West Sider, YIMBY, biker and organizer. @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social‬ executive committee chair. Radicalized former public school teacher.
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See you out there, Chicago!✊🏼✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽🌎

Our solidarity is beautiful, Chicago ✊🏻 ✊🏽✊🏿🇵🇸🇲🇽💚

You can tell Paris’s streets were car-centric until very recently, but their leaders understand something @mayorofchicago.bsky.social & @govpritzker.illinois.gov need to get as well: the sustainable growth of global cities like Chicago is impossible by car, it needs to be on 🚴🏽🚊🚌🚶🏼‍♀️

Paris’s vast network of protected bike lanes is growing FAST and has celebrity guest appearances around every corner 😍

I moved to Chicago from Indy a decade ago so I could ditch my car and live in a more diverse, progressive city. I’ve been walking, biking and riding @chicagocta.bsky.social ever since. Moving to Chicago to live car-free is the best decision I’ve ever made. I don’t want 40% less train.

You’re damn right, Paris. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Paris Metro is running trains with 3-minute headways after midnight 😍 A better world is possible, Chicago, but only if @govpritzker.illinois.gov & Springfield Dems save our mass transit with $1.5 billion in revenue & reform this year. Act now to save Chicago transit: act.ilenviro.org/a/transpo-25o

Back to Paris for the final leg of this trip, and another world-class train station to welcome me to the city center. Train stations are such better arrival points for cities than airports you have to build at least an hour away.

Okay, Amsterdam, I get the hype now! Thank you for setting the high bar that Chicago needs to reach to be the best city in the world to🚶🚴🏻🚊

I got to talk about our global fight for Palestinian liberation and climate justice with some really cool Dutch leftists like @larseijssen.bsky.social. Even though HE MADE FUN OF ME (and most Americans) who “smile for photos like you’re trying to prove you have teeth” 🤣

Stumbled into a massive anti-right wing protest in Amsterdam and decided to join in to show support for our truly global movement to free Palestine, create clean energy jobs and stop fascism 🇵🇸🌎💚

Biking should always be this safe. Air should always be this clean. Neighborhoods should always be this walkable. Cities should always be this peaceful.

Start making your plans to primary these three Dems, y’all

Spotted this in Amsterdam, coming soon to Illinois if we pass this transit bill with a delivery tax.

If you want transit in Chicago to be saved, sign a “Proponent” witness slip immediately! Firm: “Self” Representing: “Self” Subject matter: “HB 3438 - SFA 3” Position: Proponent Testimony: “Appearance Only” my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/...

Hell of a first impression, Amsterdam! We can have first-class train stations like this too all over America once we start investing in mass transit instead of 12-lane car sewers.

Au revoir, Paris! I’m off to Amsterdam by way of this beautiful high-speed train. America, we deserve these, too!

Everywhere I go in Paris they are building and expanding protected bike lanes 😍🚴🌎💚 This kind of complete streets investment is what it takes to be a global city in 2025. Let’s pick up the pace, @mayorofchicago.bsky.social!

Paris is living the YIMBY dream: *5 stories of housing over retail everywhere *Walkable, bikeable complete streets *2-minute headways on transit Chicago WHEN?

Bonjour, Paris!

The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!

Protected bike lanes are the BEST

Community is an act of faith

Spent my Sunday with @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social & @betterstreetschicago.org talking with @chicagocta.bsky.social riders about the revenue and reform we need from Springfield to fix the CTA. Take quick action with us here: win.newmode.net/icjc/mma #TransitIsEssential

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Thanks to everyone who came to our beach cleanup yesterday! Despite some chill and wind, it was great that folks showed up to help keep our great lake clean and beautiful! Special thanks to the Truman College Environmental Club and Alliance for the Great Lakes, who helped us host!

Bike lanes are like by far the best ROI of any city project

Edgewater NIMBYs rallying to ✨ preserve neighborhood character ✨ in a Wing Stop strip mall parking lot is peak self-parody.

Leo and I are back on the doors today signing our neighbors up for our weekly community dog walk through Garfield Park. Had to represent @sierraclub.org while I was out knocking doors!

IT’S HAPPENINGGGGG!!!!

Hands off clean energy jobs! 🌎 Hands off Palestine! 🇵🇸 Hands off unions! 👷🏾 Hands off women’s bodies! 🚺 HANDS OFF!

Join me there on Sunday in Irving Park to learn about how you can take action NOW with @sierraclub.org to fight back against MAGA Fascism!

Congratulations to all these @sierraclub.org endorsed climate champs in Oak Park & Evanston! #SierraVotes

See you all on Saturday!

Is Fetterman a Republican yet?

So excited to be back on the doors today for the guy who gave me my big organizing start and is @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social’s climate champ in Evanston, Mayor Daniel Biss!

New kind of canvass means a new kind of canvassing partner! Meet Leo, the community ambassador for the Garfield Park Advisory Council. Leo and I canvassed a couple of blocks right here in Garfield Park to let all my neighbors know about our new weekly dog walk in the park, starting this Monday!

We deserve better leadership in the fight against MAGA fascism than what we are getting from Durbin.

I hate to say ‘I told you so’ but… I told you so. Seven years ago:

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

LOVE to see @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social showing up in a big way for our endorsed climate champ, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss. Let’s re-elect Mayor Biss to keep leading the way on building electrification and housing density near transit. Join us on the campaign! www.danielbiss.com/get-involved